I hate to brag about my cooking. . . alright I love to brag about my cooking, but this recipe I’m giving you won second prize at our local chilli cook off, and the best part it’s loaded with veggies, V-8 juice, and ground turkey.

Seriously though the very best part is how this cook-off got started, and how it ended. There is a scripture that encourages the older women of the church to impart into the younger. Well we have a few older singles that have been starting to do just that. They decided they wanted to help out our young single mom’s have Christmas presents for their kids.

A week later we hosted a chilli cook-off with the proceeds going to these specific mom’s. The whole church miraculously got together last-minute and decorated it to look like an old fashion stage-coach theme and everyone either made chilli or brought homemade desserts, corn bread, or fry-bread.

Our own mayor (which we love) was one of the judges. After it was all done we made over a thousand dollars. Not bad for a few women inspired to make a little difference in someone’s life this Christmas.

Doing better, thank you. Hope all is well with you. Thankfully the only major problem we have had is computer problems. We were with out internet for a week which was only frustsrating when trying to work on edits of my book and missed a week writing a post.

I love to mountain bike, hike, Kayak, but who wouldn't when you live in Northern Az. I love to cook and bake healthy. I love writing and reading. God is my inspiration. I have a blog to share all of it with you at inkspiring19.com.